Wine Starcraft slowness

[Gavriel State]

Update to a newer version of Wine, before you try using DGA.  More recent
Wine vintages include TransGaming's updated DirectDraw code, which uses 
several techniques that vastly improve performance for 2D games, 
without resorting to DGA.  

DGA is faster still, but you basically have to be running as Root.  

 -Gav

"Nix N. Nix" wrote:
> 
> I am running Starcraft under Wine on RH 7.0 with Stock XF86 server.  I
> got OpenGL to work with my NVidia GEForce 2 MX card (hence, DRI works),
> because I have installed the Linux version of Unreal Tournament and it
> works beautifully.  Unfortunately, that is much more than I can say
> about Starcraft under Wine.  I understand that there is an X extension
> called DGA that I can use to speed things up, however, since I'm not
> familiar with the intricacies of X, I don't know how to enable it.  Also,
> http://www.hazalthorn.freeserve.co.uk/xfree86.html
> sems to have explicitly disabled The DGA extension in order to get DRI
> to work, but that's for Quake III and other such 3D games (I didn't have
> to do that for UT).  So, which one works better ?  DGA on, or DGA off ?
> Either way, I also need to know what I have to type or avoid typing into
> XF86Config in order to achieve the desired state in my X server.
> 
> Thanks a lot !

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